Total War™: Shogun 2 Demo

[RazorbackII]

Fantastic! This has totally restored a lot of faith for me!

I am only on my crappy laptop atm, but I will, without a shadow of a doubt, be playing this Feb 22nd just because I bloody well have to

[SonOfCrusader76]

Nice, the campaign will be included in the demo, not just lame historical battles.

That's a first, isn't it - can't ever remember a campaign demo before. Great news!

[Gfowle]

Oh Matron !!

[SonOfOdin]

Wohoo! Now I can test if I need to upgrade my PC!
Thanks CA, this is most appreciated!

Don't worry about performance too much. Rome TW, MTW2 and ETW's demos all sucked on my pc and the full games worked perfectly fine. You'll get a rough idea though for sure

[SonOfCrusader76]

Looks like we're not getting a naval battle in the demo though - maybe they swapped that for the campaign map. I know which one I'd rather have though.

[idrisguitar]

so happy for the demo, really doubt i will get 30 fps out of this game on the battle map with my set up (have quad core, 2.7 ghz, and 4gb ram and windows 7 64, but my GFX s only a 9800gt,

the empire demo didn't get over 30fps, this could be worse.

but i dont mind if its doesn;t work out. i haven;t even experience the joys of the grat stainless steel of the third age on medieval total war, so that should do me fine for a few months till i get money to upgrade.

thanks CA for giving me an early chance to check anyway

[bangell99]

Nice coincidence, 22nd happens to be my birthday!

Muhaha, my birthday is on the release date of the actual game. ;D

Great news about the demo!

[SonOfCrusader76]

so happy for the demo, really doubt i will get 30 fps out of this game on the battle map with my set up (have quad core, 2.7 ghz, and 4gb ram and windows 7 64, but my GFX s only a 9800gt,

the empire demo didn't get over 30fps, this could be worse.

but i dont mind if its doesn;t work out. i haven;t even experience the joys of the grat stainless steel of the third age on medieval total war, so that should do me fine for a few months till i get money to upgrade.

thanks CA for giving me an early chance to check anyway

Similar system to mine apart from the GPU. To be honest, when it comes to this sort of game, 30fps is much more than enough for a smooth experience - even 20fps will do the job. If you're talking something like F1 2010 where the screen is in constant motion, then that's a different story.

[emperor77]

Muhaha, my birthday is on the release date of the actual game. ;D

Great news about the demo!

Not if they delay the release

[SonOfCrusader76]

Muhaha, my birthday is on the release date of the actual game. ;D

Great news about the demo!

That's your birthday present sorted out then, eh?

[SonOfCrusader76]

Not if they delay the release

Has that happened before with a TW game?

[StuporMundi]

Campaign Demo?

EFFFF!

YEAH!

[emperor77]

Has that happened before with a TW game?

Afaik Empire was. Was to launch Feb 15th originally but didn't get released 'til the 3rd of March.

[Maizel]

Demo gets announced, and suddenly the amounts of users in the Shogun 2 forum shoots through the roof.

[Blizard]

Woohow! That's my girlfriend's birthday! She'll miss someone on her party

[totalwar-zone]

i think, maybe im wrong, this comes because we ask very strong for it.

AWESOME!

And TWZ I think you are right, they might have done this as response to questions from the community!

Twitter from CA

totalwar: You wanted it, we brought it: DEMO ANNOUNCED - http://bit.ly/g1UsMB

[davsim]

That's some really awesome new!

[Maizel]

Well it just goes to show how a little bit of good news goes long way eh? I should imagine there were a lot of people waiting to hear of this kind of news.. now they have it.. glad there are those who are pleased.

Haha, and the TWC forum also is instantly about 300% slower for me.

[idrisguitar]

Similar system to mine apart from the GPU. To be honest, when it comes to this sort of game, 30fps is much more than enough for a smooth experience - even 20fps will do the job. If you're talking something like F1 2010 where the screen is in constant motion, then that's a different story.

yeah you are right,

ill be happy with 20 fps

thanks for lfiting my excitement/hopes

[Maizel]

Lusted got it to run with huge unit sizes and what I assume playable FPS, since he played some pretty lenghty segments on a dual core and a 8800GTS, so I;m sure a 9800 will be relatively fine.